38 Quotes by Abraham Foxman

What have we achieved? ... In his world, in his culture, this is a major step. From our perspective it isn't.

The place for religion is in church, synagogue and in the home and in one's heart, ... Certainly, we think it's contradictory to the American tradition to put it on the campaign trail, to say, 'Vote for me because I'm a believer.'

Pontius Pilate comes out as a sweet young guy, when history recalls him as one of the cruelest proconsuls, who had to be recalled to Rome because of his cruelty,

There is a feeling on all sides that something is changing.

There is enough leeway in these guidelines to permit proselytizing.

While any decline is encouraging, we remain concerned because too many people continue to act out their anti-Jewish hatred. We have always said that America is different, that the Jewish communities here are fortunate to be largely immune from the kind of anti-Semitic violence experienced by some European Jewish communities. The numbers remain sobering because we know from painful experience that it only takes one incident of anti-Semitism to affect an entire community.

We had hoped that Jackson would have learned from his mistakes. It is clear now that he never was able to completely remove the bigotry from his own heart.

We have not galvanized Congress, but we will have to.

We are not opposed to any effort in the African-American community to build respect, responsibility and opportunity. We are deeply disappointed that the only leadership it can have is a bigot and a racist and an anti-Semite and conspirator.